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The Hidden Spring

A Journey to the Source of Consciousness

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The Hidden Spring

By: Mark Solms
Narrated by: Roger Davis
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Why does it feel like something to be alive? For one of the boldest thinkers in neuroscience, solving this puzzle has been a lifetime's quest. Now at last, Mark Solms, who discovered the brain mechanism for dreaming, has arrived at his answer. More than just a philosophical argument, the Free Energy theory will profoundly change how you understand your own existence.

The very idea that a breakthrough is possible may seem outrageous. Isn't consciousness intangible, beyond the reach of empirical methods? Yet Solms shows in forensic detail how misguided assumptions have concealed its nature. Only by sticking closely to the medical facts does a way past our obstacles appear. Join him on an extraordinary voyage into the strange realms beyond and learn what we really are.

©2021 Mark Solms (P)2021 Hachette Audio UK Biological Sciences Physics Science Consciousness Human Brain
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Very interesting and enjoyable.
My only problem is that I feel I need to read a dozen more books to put his ideas into context versus other opinions.

Well narrated and a compelling case.

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Great read. There are areas I would like more clarity on.. free energy I found difficult to grasp and as it becomes very important as the book continues it would be good to spend more time on it and remind the reader of its principles when talked about later. The explanation of the Markov blanket were excellent and reminded me of Penrose idea of surfaces on his alternative to Big Bang... “to see the wold in a grain of sand..”. The design of the big and the small being in effect the same. I get the ‘feeling’ solms is just warming and there is much more to come ! Thanks you :)

Inspiring !

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Completely fascinating account of how consciousness emerges, subject to (not distinct from) laws of nature.

I feel, therefore I think.

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I wand to speed forward life by 40 years, and see to what their resurch will lead to. Also I wish I was smart enough to fully comprehend all that was discussed in the book. I enjoyed the book through, very beautifuly written !!!!

My mind is blown !!!

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I was studying Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, and this book had been mentioned in the context of a Freud lecture on chs 6 and 7 of his Interpretation of Dreams, and also the Project. I recommend the book without hesitation, and also that it is revisited after an initial reading.

The language is technical but very understandable. The only fault I could find was that the narrator's voice to me became a little grating over time, though by possibly adjusting the audio tone this could be remedied.

Illuminating

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